“If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life!… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
No. But it's like the argument 'don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
“you do that all the time you know. you ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. ask me a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
“When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old man's, I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
“Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
We don't even love each other. I do a bit, you know. You do what a bit? You know. Like you...whatever...love you a bit.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share
